{"id":3359,"date":"2019-02-11T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T02:30:27","slug":"ministry-of-finance-responded-to-the-petition-of-thach-khe-iron-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/ministry-of-finance-responded-to-the-petition-of-thach-khe-iron-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Finance Responded to the Petition of Thach Khe Iron Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance Inspector responded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/2019\/01\/proposing-to-close-thach-khe-iron-mine\/\">petition sent by PanNature<\/a> on behalf of Vietnam Mining Coalition to halt Thach Khe iron mine project.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ministry of Finance Inspector&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.org.vn\/vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/110219_CV107BTC.pdf\">Document No-107\/TTr-KT<\/a>, the Ministry has well received PanNature&#8217;s recommendation to close Thach Khe iron mine in Ha Tinh, as the project provides no solid legal and scientific basis, and is proved to pose many risks associated with the stabilization of mine banks, flood prevention and drainage. The project could also affect the environment through waste-dumping and the salinity intrusion of coastal areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3355\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/180119_ThachKhe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/180119_ThachKhe.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/180119_ThachKhe-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/180119_ThachKhe-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thach Khe mine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After reviewing the content of the petition, and current law, the Ministry of Finance Inspector has sent it to People\u2019s Committee of Ha Tinh province for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, on 17 January, Vietnam Mining Coalition sent the petition to leaders at all authority and agency levels. The petition said that the project has many hidden economic, social and environmental risks. Hence, after a comparative analysis of gains and losses, economic and environmental efficiency as well as risks in 52 years of the project\u2019s life cycle, Vietnam Mining Coalition, in accordance with the 2010 Mineral Law, suggested a permanent halt in Thach Khe iron mine exploitation project, and the closing of Thach Khe mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, The Inspectorate\u00a0General of\u00a0Finance, responded to People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature), Vietnam Mining Coalition\u2019s coordination unit, about the coalition\u2019s petition to stop Thach Khe iron mine project, sent to leadership of the party, the national essembly, the government and ministries, boards and branches on January 17th, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[61,62,48,65],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-projects","tag-eiti","tag-extractive-industries","tag-conservation","tag-sustainable-development","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}